different between engraving vs xylograph

English

Noun

engraving (countable and uncountable, plural engravings)

1. The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
2. (printing) The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.

   Coordinate terms: drypoint, etching

   Hypernym: intaglio

   Hyponyms: copperplate engraving, line engraving, photoengraving, steel engraving

3. (countable) A print produced from an engraving.
4. (music) The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.

Related terms

• engrave
• whittle
• carve

Translations

Verb

engraving

1. present participle of engrave

Further reading

• engraving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• music engraving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gravening

English

Etymology

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) +? -graph.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?za?.l??.????f/, /?za?.l?.????f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?za?.lo?.????f/, /?za?.l?.????f/

Noun

xylograph (plural xylographs or xylographica)

1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).

   Synonym: woodcut

   • 2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press (?ISBN)

     First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasam?ja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.

2. A print taken from such an engraving.
   • 2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter (?ISBN), page 143:

     While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]

   • 2014, Sang-jin Park, Under the Microscope: The Secrets of the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (?ISBN), page 1:

     The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]

Translations

Verb

xylograph (third-person singular simple present xylographs, present participle xylographing, simple past and past participle xylographed)

1. (transitive) To make a print from an engraving in wood.

Translations

Related terms

• xylographer
• xylographic
• xylographical
• xylography